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Chapter 3 |
1 | O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched
you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ
hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? |
2 | This only would I learn of you, Received ye
the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? |
3 | Are ye so foolish? having begun in the
Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? |
4 |
Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain. |
5 | He therefore that
ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he
it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? |
6 | Even as
Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for
righteousness.
Gen 15:6
Rom 4:3
James 2:23
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7 |
Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the
children of Abraham. |
8 | And the
scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith,
preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying,
In thee shall all nations be blessed.
Gen 12:3
Acts 3:25
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9
| So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful
Abraham. |
10 |
For as many as are of the works of the law are under the 1curse:
for it is written,
2Cursed is every one that continueth not in
all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
1
Gen 4:11,
Deut 28:15
2
Deut 27:26
James 2:10
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11 | But that no man is justified by the law in
the sight of God, it is evident: for,
The just shall live by faith.
Hab 2:4
Rom 1:17
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12 |
And the law is not of faith: but,
The man that doeth them shall live in them.
Lev 18:5
Rom 10:5
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13 | Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of
the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written,
Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
Deut 21:23
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14 |
That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus
Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. |
15 |
Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man's
covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto. |
16 |
Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to
seeds, as of many; but as of one,
And to thy seed, which is Christ.
Gen 21:12
Rom 9:7
Heb 11:18
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17 | And
this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in
Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot
disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect. |
18 |
For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God
gave it to Abraham by promise. |
19 | Wherefore then serveth the law? It was
added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the
promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a
mediator. |
20 |
Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one. |
21 |
Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there
had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness
should have been by the law. |
22 |
But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by
faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. |
23 | But before faith came, we were kept under
the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. |
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| Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ,
that we might be justified by faith. |
25 | But after that
faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. |
26 | For ye are all the children of God by
faith in Christ Jesus. |
27 |
For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. |
28 | There
is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is
neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. |
29 | And if ye be Christ's, then are ye
Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. |